Well, I mean, fascists are generally considered to be far-right, though often they have a lot of supposedly "leftist" ideas in their governments. The way I've always thought about it is fascism is conservatism gone so far right that it's broken off the scale and gone round, and has started becoming left again
And the reverse is true for communism; or, at least, extreme, statist communism.
There's different kinds of communism, of course. And then you get into that whole mess of ideas like anarcho-capitalism -- is it leftist? Conservative? Or just silly? Who knows...
Things are not nearly that clear cut. I consider the USSR to have been an incredibly conservative country... Different opinions, I suppose.
There's different kinds of communism, of course. And then you get into that whole mess of ideas like anarcho-capitalism -- is it leftist? Conservative? Or just silly? Who knows...
Things are not nearly that clear cut. I consider the USSR to have been an incredibly conservative country... Different opinions, I suppose.